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Jordi Fabre
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 Posted: Jan 13, 2011 07:44 Post subject: A mineralogical trip through the states of USA - Pennsylvania |
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Pennsylvania, the "Coal State"
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Analcime with Apophyllite
Cornwall Mines, Cornwall, Lebanon County, Pennsylvania USA
Specimen size: 9.9 × 7.1 × 4.2 cm.
Main crystal size: 1 × 1 cm.
Former Ernie Schlichter colection
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John S. White
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Location: Stewartstown, Pennsylvania, USA
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| Posted: Jan 13, 2011 08:37 Post subject: Re: A mineralogical trip through the states of USA - Pennsylvania |
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Finally Pennsylvania! The analcime in the photos that Jordi posted is now in my collection. Here are some other minerals from Pennsylvania in my collection, minerals that are the most photogenic.
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| A wonderful quartz group from a coal mine! Reading Anthracite mine, near St. Clair, Schuykill Co. 9 cm across. |
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| Fluorapatite crystals in actinolite schist. Silver Hill quarry, Brecknock Township, Lancaster Co. The main crystal is 3 cm. |
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| Wavellite, Mt. Pleasant Mills quarry, Perry Township, Snyder Co. 5 cm across. |
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| Strontianite, Oak Hill quarry, Centre Co., 3.5 cm across. |
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| Calcite, Lincoln quarry, York Co., 7 cm across. |
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| Pyrite in schist, I-83 roadcut south of York, York Co. The crystal is 3 cm across. |
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John S. White
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Location: Stewartstown, Pennsylvania, USA
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| Posted: Jan 13, 2011 08:43 Post subject: Re: A mineralogical trip through the states of USA - Pennsylvania |
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Here are a few more.
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| Celestine, Meckley quarry, Mandata, Northumberland Co, the crystal is 3 cm across. |
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| Pyromorphite, Wheatley mine, Phoenixville, 9 cm across. |
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| Dolomite, Ober and Binkly quarry, East Petersburg, Lancaster Co., 10 cm across. |
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| Rutile, Parkesburg, Chester Co., 5 cm across. |
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| Calcite, Shippensburg quarry, Cumberland Co. The crystal is 2.5 cm tall. |
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Jim Prentiss
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Location: Ohio
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| Posted: Jan 13, 2011 10:29 Post subject: Re: A mineralogical trip through the states of USA - Pennsylvania |
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Hello Everyone,
There are some really nice specimens so far. John the Wavellite is gorgeous.
I have a few humble pieces to add today.
jimp
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| This Antigorite should add a little color. It is about 2 3/4" (6.98 cm) across from the Woods Chromite Mine, Lancaster, Pennsylvania. |
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| Brassy looking little flakes of Stipnomelane from the French Creek Mine #2, Chester County, Pennsylvania. Field of veiw is 1 3/4" (4.45 cm). |
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| Obviously this is a reasonably commmon mineral but the habit here seemed worthy of a photograph. This Tremolite is from the Grace Mine, in Berks County, Pennsylvania. The specimen is 1 1/4" (3.18 cm). |
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rweaver
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Location: Ridgecrest, California
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| Posted: Jan 15, 2011 17:43 Post subject: Re: A mineralogical trip through the states of USA - Pennsylvania |
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Former collection of Lazard Cahn, Nice dark green crystals.
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Pyromorphite
Phoenixville, Pa
7.5cm x 5.0cm |
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rweaver
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Location: Ridgecrest, California
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| Posted: Jan 15, 2011 17:47 Post subject: Re: A mineralogical trip through the states of USA - Pennsylvania |
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Fomer collection of Leo and Marion Horensky.
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Apophyllite on Magnetite
Cornwall, Pa.
7.7cm x 6.2cm |
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Joaquin Montoro
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Location: Murcia (Spain)
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| Posted: Jan 17, 2011 14:19 Post subject: Re: A mineralogical trip through the states of USA - Pennsylvania |
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One more...
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| Brucite.- Cedar Hill Quarry, Lancaster Co. Pennsylvania (USA) 10x6x5 cm. |
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John S. White
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Location: Stewartstown, Pennsylvania, USA
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| Posted: Jan 18, 2011 06:50 Post subject: Re: A mineralogical trip through the states of USA - Pennsylvania |
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A few more from my collection.
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Copper in quartz.
Pine Mountain, Adams Co., the mass of copper is about 3 cm across. |
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| Magnetite, Grace mine, Morgantown. These crystals are distinctive in that they are dodecahedral, 7 cm across. |
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| Sphalerite, Phoenixville, Chester Co., 6 cm across. |
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| Stilbite with calcite, Kibblehouse quarry, Perkiomenville, Montgomery Co., 8 cm in long dimension. |
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Antonio Alcaide
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| Posted: Mar 21, 2011 13:49 Post subject: Re: A mineralogical trip through the states of USA - Pennsylvania |
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One more from Pennsylvania.
Regards
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Stilbite
Teeter's Quarry. Gettysburg. Adams Co. Pennsylvania, USA
9,5 x 5,5 cm. |
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Jordi Fabre
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| Posted: Oct 20, 2012 12:45 Post subject: Re: A mineralogical trip through the states of USA - Pennsylvania |
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One fine example of the Rutile from Pennsylvania published by Ru Smith in About cyclic twinning
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Rutile eightling
Parkesburg, Sadsbury Township, Chester Co., Pennsylvania, USA
2 cm across
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Chris Foltz
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| Posted: Oct 30, 2012 22:30 Post subject: Antigorite from the State Line Chrome Pits Md/Pa... |
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Cleaning out my studio & came across some old boxes of material from the State Line Chrome Pits...
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Antigorite
State Line Chromite District, Lancaster Co., Pennsylvania, USA
2x3x2 cm
Collect while you're young,old age creeps up fast... |
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Pete Modreski
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| Posted: Nov 01, 2012 11:03 Post subject: Re: A mineralogical trip through the states of USA - Pennsylvania |
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| I've been enjoying all those specimens from "classic" Pennsylvania localities--thanks, John! The purple (pink? magenta?) antigorite is something.
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kushmeja
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Location: New Jersey
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| Posted: Dec 12, 2019 18:05 Post subject: Re: A mineralogical trip through the states of USA - Pennsylvania |
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John - that Pyromorphite is spectacular! Truly a top-notch specimen for a PA Pyromorphite, and I would love to have one of such high caliber for the PA section of our collection someday!
I never realized how woefully under-appreciated PA is on here! It seems that there is little love for the classics of PA on FMF ;)
We have a fairly good PA collection, so I will work on adding some PA specimens over the coming weeks. I'll try to get at least a couple uploaded over the next few days. Hopefully that will help to jump start this PA thread & some of the other members will start posting more PA specimens to the forum!
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Bob Carnein
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Location: Florissant, CO
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| Posted: Dec 12, 2019 19:13 Post subject: Re: A mineralogical trip through the states of USA - Pennsylvania |
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| Here's my vote for the Grace mine magnetite and the rutile eightling!!
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am mizunaka
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| Posted: Dec 12, 2019 19:37 Post subject: Re: A mineralogical trip through the states of USA - Pennsylvania |
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| Mineral: | Celestine |
| Locality: | | Meckley's Quarry, Mandata, Northumberland County, Pennsylvania, USA |  |
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